Category: family
10/08/08 09:52 - 61ºF - ID#46004
Political I need to vent - sorry
[box]Hi, DIRECT QUOTES from Obama from his books. These are NOT taken out of context--but his own words.
From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!
From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
- If you have never forwarded an e-mail, now is the time to Do so!!! We CANNOT have someone with this type of mentality running our GREAT nation!! I don't care whether you are Democrat or a Conservative. We CANNOT turn ourselves over to this type of character in a President. PLEASE help spread the word!!!![/box]
My god, I sometimes can't even fathom how we remotely came out of the same gene pool - WTF!!!!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/08/08 07:51 - 60ºF - ID#46001
A little getaway
The Lake in the a.m. - great with a cup of coffee!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/08/08 05:22 - 60ºF - ID#45997
More car crud
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/07/08 08:38 - 55ºF - ID#45982
Tonight's Debate
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/07/08 12:07 - 43ºF - ID#45971
Just stuff
- No boss at work today - somehow that always makes things go a little more smoothly.
- It appears I didn't crack the engine block in my car - just tore up the alternator belt - replaced it about a month ago - will have to have it replaced again. Boy - did it make a stink.
- Bought some of those black & decker plug-in things that are supposed to make some super high frequency pitch sound to keep bugs away - they don't work on fruit flies - sick of those litte bastards.
- Bought some Edy's Espresso Chip ice cream for company last night - it's fabulous! Talk about best of everything - ice cream, espresso, chocolate chips - yum! Next best thing to Andersen's coffee bean ice cream.
- Overall - not a bad day.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: cars
10/05/08 11:54 - 49ºF - ID#45952
I hate cars
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: religion
10/04/08 10:45 - 50ºF - ID#45934
Sunday Service
Here is the information I received on the service:
In celebration of the establishment
of his new church...
You are invited to attend the first service at
Spirit of Truth
An interdenominational setting of Christian faith
under the pastoral leadership of
Elder Jerome Livingston (my sister's friend)
Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.
2275 Fillmore Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14214
(second floor: unfortunately, no elevator is available)
If anyone's interested in attending, all are welcome.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: dreams
10/04/08 12:11 - 52ºF - ID#45928
Strange dreams....
This was a weird dream on several fronts: 1) I don’t have a table in my kitchen. 2) The house wasn’t really my house but I didn’t seem to be one with which I was otherwise familiar. 3) The neighborhood I showed them wasn’t really mine either; mine doesn’t have the buildings I described. They were more like the old brick buildings along Oak St. or on Michigan. 4) I actually remembered, I think, at least most of this dream. I very rarely even remember if I’ve had any dreams.
Maybe it was those two cookies I ate before I went to bed. It was cold last night, and I just don’t want to cave in to turning on the heat yet, so I made cookies to have the oven warm things up a bit. No, I didn’t put anything funny in the cookies, but maybe I shouldn’t have eaten them so late. They were pretty good though - oatmeal chocolate chip.
Good cookies...
...but strange dreams.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/03/08 09:11 - 51ºF - ID#45923
In loving memory...
He was the kind of guy who, the first time my daughter (then 7 yrs. old) saw him holding my hand he asked her if it was okay. And, after meeting my 20-year old son, decided that, based on the vibe he got, the next time they would meet he wanted to talk to my son man-to-man to assure my son that his intentions were honorable and that he wouldn’t hurt me. (Boys can be so protective of their moms.)
We moved in together in November 2002 - both happier than we ever imagined possible. But I guess it’s true, when something seems too good to be true, it usually is. In December of 2002, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. On Christmas day we got engaged. There didn’t seem to be any sense in wasting time as the future seemed so uncertain. He was concerned about the possibility of becoming a burden; but nowhere inside me could I remotely imagine anything other than being with him - whatever was to come.
Mid January, lots of testing, biopsy, and stint surgery. The Dr.’s told us that he had a rare form of pancreatic cancer that only one in 20-million people get but that, if you could imagine, it was a “better†kind of cancer to have than “regular†pancreatic cancer. It was supposed to be more treatable with a better chance at survival. We remained hopeful. January 25, 2003 we were married. (Aside from my children’s birthdays, it was the happiest day of my life.) Several months later he adopted my daughter - an incredible joy for them both.
Early February, I took a leave of absence from my job so I could be with him while he went through chemo and radiation. We were together all day, nearly every day for the following 6 months, cramming as much as we possibly could into the time that we had. It was the most intense, intimate experience I ever had. Some of it was really hard, but his life touching ours was such an amazing gift. He passed in August 2003.
Today would have been my husband’s 47th birthday -
For him, my wish, my prayer... is that he truly is at peace.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/02/08 10:50 - 49ºF - ID#45910
Can you say nuclear
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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